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My Borderline Personality Disorder Doesn’t Make Me a Bad Person
When therapists started suggesting a borderline personality disorder diagnosis for me in late 2017, I remember questioning everything I ever thought about myself. I read posts on Reddit and Quora that used words like “toxic,” “psychopath,” and “monster” to describe people with this same diagnosis, and friends who previously described me as empathetic and kind suddenly ran for the hills as soon as I disclosed this highly controversial condition.